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re: Wired magazine - no, there are no 150 year olds getting Social Security
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:42 am to BayouBlitz
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:42 am to BayouBlitz
quote:you got him now!!!!!1!111!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111111
But DOGE said it was true!!!!!
Lol.
there's no fraud LOL!!!!1!!! government systems were always perfect!
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Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:42 am to Eurocat
So writers from a stooge rag that haven't looked at anything in the SSA systems are claiming Elon and his team, that are examining the SSA systems directly, are wrong.
OK Jan.
OK Jan.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:42 am to Eurocat
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Musk could also have simply looked up the SSA’s own website, which explains that since September 2015 the agency has automatically stopped benefit payments when anyone reaches the age of 115.
Oh, it's on the website. No need to check on the actual money then. Phew. That's how audits work in the corporate world too, I'm sure.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:43 am to Eurocat
Elon needs evidence, but wired only needs a formal possibility.
To be fair, it's time for DOGE to produce more than sensational headlines and tweets.
To be fair, it's time for DOGE to produce more than sensational headlines and tweets.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:43 am to BeepBopBoop
It's Wired Magazine, the hottest name in journalism
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:43 am to Eurocat
Then get the SS admin to clean up that mess of an old system.
Also, are those numbers of the 120+ year olds still active? If so, why?
To me, it seems utterly fricking insane that anyone can believe that a government program that spends over a TRILLION DOLLARS in a year doesn't have a frickton of waste and fraud involved in it.
Also, are those numbers of the 120+ year olds still active? If so, why?
To me, it seems utterly fricking insane that anyone can believe that a government program that spends over a TRILLION DOLLARS in a year doesn't have a frickton of waste and fraud involved in it.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:44 am to BayouBlitz
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But DOGE said it was true!!!!! Lol.
Speculation by wired magazine is so much more reliable than Elon. You dummy.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:45 am to Eurocat
Wired magazine is a joke magazine infested by Marxist queers and weirdos
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:46 am to Eurocat
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COBOL is rarely used today, and as such, Musk’s cadre of young engineers may well be unfamiliar with it.
The assumption is that Musk’s team didn’t know this, which I’m not buying. This story is fake news.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:47 am to Eurocat
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no, there are no 150 year olds getting Social Security
What a weird thing to say. Nobody has said there are actually 150 year olds getting SS.
Wired, in fact, is proving Elon's point. Good on them
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 9:49 am
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:48 am to GoCrazyAuburn
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What a weird thing to say. Nobody has said their are actually 150 year olds getting SS.
but musk said they're vampires!!! HE'S LYYYYYYYYYYING!!
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:48 am to dstone12
1. Sounds like BS that the age thing has anything to do with the language the program was written in.
2. Lack of a death is likely the cause of these #'s remaining on the rolls. I got crucified for pointing that out.
3. The gov't is incompetent. So why aren't people that are over 117 (gives them two years to figure out they stopped getting benefits) deleted from the system.
A. just incompetency for these ancient people on the books.
or
B. system used this to game SS for money by govt employees and even more likely to use these number for voter fraud.
2. Lack of a death is likely the cause of these #'s remaining on the rolls. I got crucified for pointing that out.
3. The gov't is incompetent. So why aren't people that are over 117 (gives them two years to figure out they stopped getting benefits) deleted from the system.
A. just incompetency for these ancient people on the books.
or
B. system used this to game SS for money by govt employees and even more likely to use these number for voter fraud.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:48 am to RohanGonzales
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That’s just one possible explanation
Medicare we know take a 40 billion dollar hit every year from fraud (false claims paid they shouldn't)
they know , admit it, and its' published...
so if we have this scale of fraud on Medicare... well, you know the rest
Of Possible explanations for every other agency handling billions
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:48 am to Eurocat
shite I took COBOL way back in 1994 when I was at Auburn. I remember it being a fun class, and the end result was you would have to print your program and the results to those old style dot matrix printers and submit to the teacher.
I have a friend that has spent his whole career doing COBOL programming for IBM. He makes really, really good money because no one under the age of 50 is going to take the time to learn it, and he is the last of a dying bread.
I have a friend that has spent his whole career doing COBOL programming for IBM. He makes really, really good money because no one under the age of 50 is going to take the time to learn it, and he is the last of a dying bread.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:49 am to Eurocat
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there are no 150 year olds getting Social Security
We know. There are no 150yos alive. The real question is what's going on here and who is receiving it.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:49 am to Eurocat
it's amazing that they can conduct a thorough investigation into this in less than a day to disprove the allegations
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:50 am to dstone12
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Let’s audit it at least.
The 19 year old DOGE nerds areN'T auditors tho. lmao.
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What’s wrong with that? We have a department for it. Let’s use it.
"DOGE" isn't a real department. lmao.
You need a base level of understanding about the organization and operations to audit it. Keep JAQing off tho; I'm sure it makes you feel very smart.
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:50 am to BBONDS25
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Speculation by wired magazine is so much more reliable than Elon. You dummy.
Watching these people’s conniptions over this kind of scrutiny is basically validating pretty much everything I always suspected about them.
I’m not sure they even realize it.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:51 am to Eurocat
That’s way too much coping to deal with the fact our Social Security System is, at a minimum, a fricking joke it is so antiquated and screwed up. It is also ripe for fraud.
We’re running social security in 60 year old systems while disbursing BILLIONS to foreign countries. Absurd.
We’re running social security in 60 year old systems while disbursing BILLIONS to foreign countries. Absurd.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 9:51 am to Eurocat
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experts quickly pointed out that this is very likely just a quirk
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Computer programmers quickly claimed that the 150 figure was not evidence of fraud
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Musk’s cadre of young engineers may well be unfamiliar with it.
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That’s just one possible explanation for what DOGE allegedly found.
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